Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your election issue. It is a classic. Our copy of this issue came in the mail just about 24 hours after the same election returns were published in our local papers. Thus, in approximately 26 hours, you edited, printed and had distribution started on this sensational issue...
...Virginia's cultists, the Gray plan had a fatal defect: it offered local option on desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured...
...system would be a good thing for the University as well as for the post office, they are not including it in any plans for the future. The same thing may be said about the lateness of the mail train; it poses a problem which lies out of the local office's domain and which must be considered as part of a daily routine...
...mail leaving the city, Cambridge, 38 merely bundles it and sends it to the main Cambridge Post Office in Central Square. Cambridge 39, or Cambridge A, as it is often called, handles the classification of the mail from there. With Parcel Post, however, the local office must deal with an unusually large number of packages, mainly because Harvard has so many students whose homes are at a considerable distance from Cambridge. These packages are put in sacks according to state or foreign destination, and three times a day are sent to the railway station for distribution...
...scale improvement such as the correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...